Casanova Part 8: Convent Affairs

Part 8 of Kassanov's escape begins with a meeting of Countess Coronini – the pain of a lover – reconciliation – the first meeting – a philosophical parenthesis. A scientist, an adventurer, perhaps a Kabbalist, dealt with a stirrer in politics, a gambler who, as he told us, was born of a fairer sex and was also born as one; This man, now remembered for his written account of his own life, was the rarest autobiographer, the one who did not live to write, but wrote because he lived...

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